gravitas_deficiency

joined 2 years ago

This timeline is so fucking dumb 😓

lol wow. Make America Industrial Revolution smog again…?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 38 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Wow that’s a complete head scratcher. What a mystery. Guess we’ll never know.

And Belarus is exempted, too.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Wow it’s super cool how people who don’t understand global economics are running our economy now 🫠

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I assume they’re devoting the vast majority of their capacity to military production for now, but I would enthusiastically buy a Ukrainian drone over a Chinese one once the war is heading towards a positive resolution, and consumer production becomes more of a thing.

Their site, for those interested. They’ve got a ~350ish USD model with a 2kg capacity, 25km range, and 3km max altitude. That seems… really good for the price.

They let millions of their own people die because Mao decided he didn’t like sparrows for a while. They’ve tilted harder at far more pointless windmills.

If he calls it a “special military operation”… well, that’ll be like the 8th or 9th shark jump in the last 3ish months

I mean, yeah, but I live here too :(

Hey man, I can go all day if you want.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Reading comprehension is, evidently, not one of your strengths.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

conspiracy to cause a public nuisance

I’m sorry, but that is the most idiotic nanny-state bullshit “crime” I have ever heard of.

 

It’s a very obvious solution once you take a look at what a lot of their coastline looks like. Elevated armor delivery. Skip the beach. Dump ‘em’ straight on the coastal roads. Makes a shocking amount of sense. Definitely much more specific of a use case than the more general purpose landing support vessels that the USN/USMC employs, but for their primary missions and targets in the next decade, this is exactly the hardware that will significantly increase the CCP’s chances.

This is the an evolution of the combined arms amphibious assault tactics that the US has refined for the better part of a century. For heavily built up targets - specifically those that need to be assaulted and captured quickly for any reasonable chance of success (read: Taiwan + establishing a foothold on the island), this is PERFECT. This basically lets you dump 1000 tanks and a ton of IADS and 100k infantrymen in like, an hour.

That’s a paradigm shift right there.

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